dire outcome

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Resolving the innovation dilemma is key to avoiding that dire outcome.

The antivirus companies say such a dire outcome is not likely.

For all the schadenfreude in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and elsewhere, this was a dire outcome for the Scottish game.

That dire outcome is still considered a long shot, even if Spain might eventually require a Greek-style bailout.

4. A civil war: The most dire outcome is one in which Yanukovich tries to put down the protests violently but unsuccessfully, thereby generating a civil war between the Ukraine's Western and Eastern regions.

Most academics and opinion-makers know that the rate of return on postulating extreme outcomes is far greater than that of simply establishing facts: A columnist is much better off predicting a dire outcome than being caught up with the facts that lead to a complex and uncertain one.

Analysts at the Levy Economics Institute and Goldman Sachs have predicted even more dire outcomes.

But some analysts see the potential for even more dire outcomes.

I have seen some dire outcomes where women opted for a home birth, against advice.

They've predicted dire outcomes, including cuts to employee hours and the widespread reclassification of salaried employees as hourly workers.

Even peers who were predicting dire outcomes didn't seem to believe that they would come to pass.